{"id":18399,"date":"2023-06-13T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18399"},"modified":"2023-06-13T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:39:44","slug":"biden-demagogues-florida-massacre-to-demonize-gun-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/13\/biden-demagogues-florida-massacre-to-demonize-gun-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Demagogues Florida Massacre to Demonize Gun Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Libertarian Institute, June 13, 2023<\/h3>\n

Biden Demagogues Florida Massacre to Demonize Gun Owners<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden tweeted yesterday<\/span><\/a> on what he called \u201cPulse Remembrance Day\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Seven years ago today, our nation suffered what was then the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Forty-nine people, predominantly Latino LGBTQI+ people, lost their lives in a senseless act of gun violence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando while police loitered for hours outside. Politicians have been exploiting the killings ever since. And no amount of hard facts or a damning jury verdict have been able to curb political demagoguery.<\/p>\n

Biden touted the anniversary of the killing but omitted mentioning how FBI misconduct and deceit caused the subsequent federal court case to collapse.<\/p>\n

Noor Salman, the widow of Omar Mateen, was charged with material support of a foreign terrorist organization and lying to the FBI about knowing about her husband\u2019s pending attack on the nightclub. The FBI\u00a0vigorously interrogated her<\/span><\/a> for 18 hours,\u00a0threatening her with the loss of custody of her infant son<\/span><\/a>\u00a0unless she signed a confession.\u00a0Salman, who\u00a0reportedly had an IQ of only 84<\/span><\/a>, initially denied any knowledge but relented and signed a statement composed by an FBI agent.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors flourished the FBI memo of Salman\u2019s confession as the ultimate proof of her\u00a0perfidy.\u00a0But the memo\u00a0contained false statements<\/span><\/a> and contradictions\u00a0which even the government could not sweep away.\u00a0After the trial ended, the jury foreman (who wished to remain anonymous) notified the\u00a0Orlando Sentinel<\/em>: \u201cI wish that\u00a0the FBI had recorded their interviews with Ms. Salman<\/span><\/a> as there were several significant inconsistencies with the written summaries of her statements.\u201d In this landmark case\u2014as well as in the 2016 interview of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn<\/span><\/a>\u2014the FBI chose to rely on its agents\u2019 ex post facto memos instead of the words and voices of individuals it was investigating.<\/p>\n

But that was not the biggest blow to federal credibility.\u00a0On the day after the Pulse club massacre, then-FBI chief James Comey promised: \u201cWe will\u00a0leave no stone unturned<\/span><\/a> and we will work all day and all night to understand the path to that terrible night\u2026I don\u2019t see anything in reviewing our work that our agents should have done differently, but we\u2019ll look at it in an open and honest way, and be transparent about it.\u201d But Comey provided zero transparency over the following eleven months prior to President Donald Trump\u2019s firing him<\/span><\/a> in May 2017. Comey fastidiously avoided overturning any stones exposing the FBI\u2019s role in the calamity. Comey complained of the difficulty of investigating lone wolf terrorists like Mateen, \u201cWe are looking for needles in a nationwide haystack.\u201d Comey also declared on Mateen, \u201cThere is confusion about his motives.\u201d<\/p>\n

But any confusion was solely the result of FBI deceit. During his night-long rampage, Mateen made several phone calls to 911 and talked at length to police negotiators. The FBI redacted the transcript<\/span><\/a> of those calls to expunge Mateen\u2019s motivation. He pledged allegiance to the Islamic State\u2014radicals who were on a beheading spree in the Mideast\u2014<\/span>and expressed solidarity with Muslim terrorists that had attacked in the U.S. and abroad. He proclaimed, \u201cYou have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They\u2019re killing a lot of innocent people. So what am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there?\u201d Republican leaders condemned the Obama administration for seeking to \u201cdownplay the shooting\u2019s connection to radical extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than admitting that Mateen\u2019s rage was sparked by U.S. government killings of Muslims abroad, the FBI and Obama administration fabricated a storyline about anti-gay bias. The Pulse Nightclub was a hotspot for Hispanic gays and lesbians in the Orlando area. Attorney General Loretta Lynch declared, \u201cThis was clearly an act of terror and an act of hate.\u201d President Barack Obama visited Orlando, praised the nightclub as a place where people could \u201cbe who you truly are,\u201d and declared, \u201cHatred toward people because of sexual orientation, regardless of where it comes from, is a betrayal of what\u2019s best in us.\u201d But Mateen was unaware that it was a gay nightclub. Instead, he chose it because of proximity after his efforts to launch a mass killing at a nearby shopping and entertainment complex were doomed by heavy security. The notion that it was an anti-gay crime was refuted a month after the shootings in a Washington Post<\/i> piece headlined, \u201cFBI has found no evidence<\/span><\/a> that Orlando shooter targeted Pulse because it was a gay club.\u201d That conclusion was confirmed at the 2018 trial where it was revealed that he had simply googled \u201cOrlando nightclubs\u201d<\/span><\/a> to pick his target. But those facts have done nothing to prevent the creation of a myth.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the killings, the FBI began working to prevent Americans from learning of their connections to the carnage. Comey complained of the difficulty of investigating lone wolf terrorists:\u00a0\u201cOur\u00a0work is very challenging<\/span><\/a>. We are looking for needles in a nationwide haystack.\u201d But the key player in this case was in the FBI\u2019s back pocket all along.<\/p>\n

Eleven days after Noor Salman\u2019s trial began, the Justice Department belatedly admitted that the killer\u2019s father,\u00a0Seddique Mateen, had been a paid FBI informant<\/span><\/a> for eleven years, starting in 2005. Seddique Mateen, who came to America from Afghanistan, produced a pro-Taliban<\/span><\/a>, anti-American Dari\u00a0language television program. On the day after the massacre, when asked if the FBI was investigating Seddique Mateen,\u00a0Comey replied, \u201cno comment<\/span><\/a>.\u201d Comey was likely aware of the FBI\u2019s close relationship to\u00a0the biggest firearm massacre in U.S. history up to that point.<\/p>\n

Prior to his attack, Omar Mateen was practically walking around Florida wearing a sandwich board proclaiming, \u201cFUTURE MASS KILLER.\u201d He had boasted of his connections to\u00a0terrorists, threatened to have Al Qaeda kill a co-worker\u2019s family<\/span><\/a>, and talked of wanting to be a martyr\u2014when he was not vocally vilifying African-Americans<\/span><\/a> and minorities. Numerous individuals and organizations\u2014including his mosque\u2014warned authorities that he could be a threat to public safety<\/span><\/a>. When FBI officials investigated him in 2013, he\u00a0repeatedly lied<\/span><\/a> to them. But the FBI swayed the local sheriff\u2019s department to drop its investigation because a\u00a0\u201cconfidential informant\u201d assured FBI agents that Omar Mateen was not a terrorist and would not \u201cgo postal or anything like that<\/span><\/a>.\u201d That \u201cconfidential informant\u201d may have been Mateen\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s cosseting of the father was triple fishy. The FBI continued relying on Seddique Mateen even after hearing that he was seeking to finance terrorist attacks<\/span><\/a> abroad. Four years before the massacre, the feds received a\u00a0tip\u00a0that he was seeking\u00a0to raise up to $100,000 to bankroll attacks against the Pakistani government.<\/p>\n

Indeed, just before Omar Mateen\u2019s attack, his\u00a0father transferred\u00a0large sums of money to Turkey<\/span><\/a> and Afghanistan. The FBI has formally permitted its informants<\/span><\/a> to\u00a0commit more than 5,000 crimes a year in recent times.<\/p>\n

Instead of being honest with the American public about the FBI\u2019s role in this case, the Obama administration and Comey rushed to exploit the Pulse Nightclub massacre to extend federal power.\u00a0Democrats\u00a0quickly seized upon the death toll to push new gun control<\/span><\/a> legislation. (Seddique Mateen also vigorously endorsed gun control<\/span><\/a> when he appeared at a Hillary Clinton rally in\u00a0August 2016.)<\/p>\n

Comey said Omar Mateen had been \u201cradicalized at least in part through the Internet<\/span><\/a>\u201d\u2014very convenient for Comey\u2019s campaign to sway Congress to give the FBI new power to seize Internet records<\/span><\/a> of Americans without with a search warrant\u2014the FBI\u2019s \u201ctop legislative priority\u201d for 2016. Senator John McCain<\/span><\/a> (R-AZ) led the charge, assuring fellow senators that if the FBI could \u201cmore easily determine Internet activity of those suspected of radicalization,\u201d the Orlando massacre might not have happened. Uh\u2026maybe the son was radicalized by watching his father\u2019s TV program?<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s Orlando debacle followed other cases in which the FBI failed to heed obvious warning signs of terrorist attacks\u2014from 9\/11<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0the Fort Hood<\/span><\/a>, Texas, killing spree\u00a0to the\u00a0Boston Marathon<\/span><\/a> bombing\u00a0to a\u00a0Garland<\/span><\/a>, Texas,\u00a0attack spurred by an FBI agent.\u00a0If not for the federal prosecution of Noor Salman, we likely never would have learned that Seddique Mateen was on the FBI payroll. How many other self-damning bombshells remain hidden in FBI files?<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s tweet yesterday concluded: \u201cIt\u2019s time for Congress to make commonsense reforms to keep our communities safe. Americans deserve nothing less.\u201d No matter how badly law enforcement responds to an attack, collective guilt rests on any private citizen who owns a gun. Remember that Biden\u2019s \u201csolution\u201d to crime is to ban semi-automatic firearms. But rounding up 50+ million guns and rifles could cause more problems than a hundred Wacos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Libertarian Institute, June 13, 2023 Biden Demagogues Florida Massacre to Demonize Gun Owners by James Bovard President Joe Biden tweeted yesterday on what he called \u201cPulse Remembrance Day\u201d: Seven years ago today, our nation suffered what was then the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Forty-nine people, predominantly Latino LGBTQI+ people, lost their lives in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,2863,3776,47,740,3779,3777,3778,890,1415,38,1414,1413,102],"class_list":["post-18399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden","tag-comey","tag-confession","tag-fbi","tag-foreign-policy","tag-garland-texas","tag-hispanic","tag-internet","tag-loretta-lynch","tag-noor-salman","tag-obama","tag-omar-mateen","tag-pulse-nightclub","tag-waco"],"yoast_head":"\nBiden Demagogues Florida Massacre to Demonize Gun Owners - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Biden yesterday portrayed the 2016 Pulse Nightclub killings as an anti-gay hate crime despite no such evidence.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/13\/biden-demagogues-florida-massacre-to-demonize-gun-owners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biden Demagogues Florida Massacre to Demonize Gun Owners - 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